Confronting the change in our climate is both terrifying and important, and if Trump has his way there won’t be much left to talk about very soon. Until then, we’ve got some really bad news and some slightly good news about the environment.
Bad news first: it’s 36 degrees hotter than usual in the North Pole. It’s been getting progressively warmer there since the end of October. A scientist from Rutgers University named Jennifer Francis explained the strange weather patterns to The Washington Post, saying by email, “The Arctic warmth is the result of a combination of record-low sea-ice extent for this time of year, probably very thin ice, and plenty of warm/moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a very wavy jet stream.”
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